Women in Scotland: Servants and Miners We continue our series on women in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, with a particular focus on employment. The existence of women servants is not a surprise, but women miners …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Farming and Fishing In our last post we looked at women working in manufacturing. In fact, in many parishes it was the women who predominantly worked in this sector, spinning. However, there were …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Manufacturing This is the first post in our new series looking at women in Scotland. If you search for the subject “women” in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland the results are …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Languages: Changes and reasons Here is the last in our series of posts on Scotland’s languages. This time we look more closely at why there were changes in the languages spoken in Scotland. As …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Pronunciation and purity In the last post we looked at predominantly Gaelic, Scots and English speaking parishes. But, it is important to note that the other minority languages have impacted on whatever the …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Gaelic, Scots and English This is the second post on Scotland’s languages. This time we look more closely at the languages spoken throughout the parishes. As can be gleaned in the last blog post, …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Etymology What are the languages of Scotland? There are three official languages: English, which is the main language spoken, then the minority languages Scots, which is spoken by roughly 30% of …Continue reading →

Food and drink in Scotland: Food provision, scarcity and health This is the third and final post exploring food and drink in Scotland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Here we look at the provision of food as …Continue reading →

Food and drink in Scotland: Why Scots ate and drank what they did The previous post on Scotland’s food and drink highlights the fact that what people ate was very much dependent on what people could grow, according to climate, topography and soil …Continue reading →

Food and Drink in Scotland: What Scots ate and drank A recent scientific study [1] has been published showing that in the Victorian era people living in the country ate better than those living in the cities. This got me …Continue reading →